Sentences with phrase «of wall of water»

With an 8 - foot, high volume board under my feet, I had the impression of a wall of water hitting on me just to knock me down and swirl until I gave up another attempt to surf it.

A different sort of wall of water — a storm surge — swamped low - lying ground some 360 million years ago in what's now Scotland.

Can you imagine the size of that wall of water on either side of them.

A tsunami is not just one wave but a series of walls of water minutes or even up to an hour apart.

Not exact matches

There's a meter on the wall that shows you how much time you have left, so you won't have to worry about running out of water while you're in the middle of shampooing.

On August 8, 1975, the dam collapsed and sent a wall of water nearly 20 feet (6 meters) high and 7.5 miles wide (12 kilometers) downriver, according to a summary of a chapter in the book «The River Dragon Has Come!»

Just as the capital Kuala Lumpur settles down following a fraught rally last week, at which riot police turned water cannons on supporters of the PM, top U.S. media outlets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT), have reported yet more scandalous allegations about the country's sovereign wealth fund.

There are a variety of options and costs to doing so, from structural changes like reinforcing walls to resist water pressure and installing permanent pumps to remove water.

I don't think that point of view holds water, but the fact that it's put forward with a straight face makes it pretty unsurprising that a small handful of Wall Street types are going to cling to the notion.

That plastic sheet might be converted into any number of seemingly unrelated products: a flexible bag to package nuts for retail sale; a liner (officially a «geomembrane») meant to sit atop a water reservoir; or a vapour barrier used in walls in newly built residential construction projects.

For example, does your company have some type of superior, new technology that totally blows all your competitors completely out of the water and is this technology super secret and protected by an impenetrable wall of patents?

Cutting or hammering through walls can be dangerous if you don't know what's inside of them — namely gas pipes, live electrical wires, water pipes, you name it.

«Summer» boasted grass for a picnic, and «spring» had a wall of water.

Here's an eyeful of one of the innovative specialized paint - coated walls in action — thankfully demonstrated with just water, not actual bladder matter.

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

Still — even if the market starts making headway again toward its January high - water mark — it is possible Wall Street has passed its moment of «peak happiness» for a while — and perhaps for this entire cycle.

This week, President Obama travels to Wall Street, where he'll demand — in light of the Street's continuing antics since the bailout, as well as its role in watering down the Volcker rule — that the Glass - Steagall Act be resurrected and big banks be broken up.

Water rapidly rose up against the city's levees, a series of walls designed to keep the area from flooding.

A wall of water rushed into the city, trapping thousands.

You can't help but fall in love with pretty Puerto Vallarta... one of the only historic colonial cities right on the water... with cobblestone streets and bougainvillea tumbling over adobe walls... but with a modern, sophisticated vibe.

When activated, the Viper operator remotely fires a high - powered stream of water through a flex hose to clean the entire length of each tube in the exchanger, removing deposits and other buildup from the tube walls.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life - threatening storm surges — walls of water rushing inland.

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) blew Wall Street's expectations out of the water Monday when it reported first - quarter subscriber growth of 7.41 million, well above consensus estimates.

When you're looking at an 8 - foot - high wall of water in front of you that you are going to have to go up (because it's in the way); well, let's just say it's a rush.

On the big glass wall that fronts his hotel lobby, a window washer is spraying a stream of water.

Imagine lounging on your deck, a cocktail in hand, the quiet turquoise waters of the Caribbean spread out before you... Or picture yourself relaxing in a flower - filled courtyard where lavender bougainvillea tumbles over stucco walls, while the sweet perfume of frangipani fills the air at dusk.

«In the Coastal Bend community we have done a lot of the gutting of homes and that entails taking out the walls and the floors and everything that has been saturated with water,» said Project Manager, Rico Wilcox.

On the wall hangs a crucifix, on my desk a picture of the Blessed Mother, In my desk drawer holy water that I sprinkle in the classroom before class commences.

When we are hot with hate, love seeps in like water and extinguishes the fire; When we have a wall of anger, love undermines the wall and restores us; When we are cold with hopelessness, love can bring heat to awaken our spirit; When we are sick and dying, love calms and soothes, and helps our passing.

He received food — lentils soaked in water — by stretching his band through a small hole in the wall of the cell.

Suddenly an eerie calm fell over the scene, and I looked out the broken windows to see a massive, roaring wall of water headed straight toward me.

Sitting in a steepled building with stained glass remembrances of Jesus» life while munching a bit of bread and sipping a bit of juice somehow does not help us catch a glimpse of Jesus nearly so easily as munching some potato chips and sipping from a bottle of water alongside a group of people who live in the streets, as the coastal breezes waft the ever - present stench of urine from the nearby walls and bushes over our little group.

What do you think of some people's tendency to see apparition of Jesus (or Mary) in strange places — like a lava lamp, a Cheeto, a piece of toast, or a water stain on a wall?

Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust (sic) in oppression and perverseness... This iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall... which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip water out of the cistern!»

Those it selects to enter may discover only that they have somehow entered, be it through the back of a coat closet or by way of a flood of water that burst out of a painting on the wall.

Soon the water was shallow enough for his men to cross the riverbed and approach the walls of the city, but, how would he get past the walls?

Another element is the building's stunning beauty — Celtic art runs through the statue of St. Patrick in the front and across gorgeous green and gold walls, in mazelike patterns that flow even under the water of the baptismal font.

I just heard they found a water stain that looks like Jayzus on the wall of a homeless shelter in Podunk, Iowa!

In that day you looked to the weapons of the house of the forest [Lebanon — the reference is to Judah's arsenal], and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool, and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool.

I would say this to those who would withhold the water of baptism, the joy of worship, or the bonds of marriage: You are less strong than the water, which will flow around you, find its path, and gently erode each wall you try to erect.

Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them; therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant; and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.»

tick... tick... tick of hot water pipes in the wall at 3:17 AM.

When the tsunami hit Asia, weren't those caught in that wall of water right to be afraid?

For instance, it is probable that what happened at the Red Sea — actually the Sea of Reeds — had more to do with darkness and an east wind and chariots mired in the mud and the change of the tide, than with the vertical walls of water rendered so picturesquely by Cecil B. DeMille.

The Gihon spring, outside the city wall — ancient Jerusalem's only unfailing source of water — is made inaccessible to attackers, and its waters channeled through a tunnel cut through the rock, into the city, for a distance of about 1700 feet.

The fact is, of course, that whether by wind and tide, or by giant walls of water which formed between a dry pathway through the midst of the sea, what is affirmed is the Lord's Power over all power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see Matt.

And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

How can these people, we ask, after experiencing a miraculous liberation from a first - class oppressor, after watching the enemy collapse under walls of water, after waking up with manna at their feet — how can they carp about not having water?

Extensive reconstruction of church buildings, including the laying of floors and the introduction of pews and other more suitable furnishings, was taking place, and a generous use of whitewash obscured the dirt if it did not prevent the seepage of water through the walls and into the foundation.